Oil-burning branding implement.



No. 754,862. PATENTED MAR. 15, 1904.

- G. FULLER.

OIL BURNING BRANDING IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED OOTQZB. 1903.

.NO MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented March 1 5, 1904 PATENT OFFICE.

OIL-BURNING BRANDING IMPLEMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 754,862, dated March 15, 1904.

Application filed October 26, 1903.

To all whom, it WLLLZ/ concern:

Be it known that I, GE RGE FULLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oil- Burning Branding Implements, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to branding implements, and pertains especially to a branding implement or stamp self-heated by combustion of coal-oil therein for branding or stamping various articles, such as cured or smoked meat, and particularly brined meat while yet wet.

The object of the invention is to provide a self-heating oil-burning brander of such novel and peculiar construction of parts that air fines or drafts are formed in a particular manner therein so as make a continuous combustion of the oil and produce an intensely-rarefied heat directly under the branding-plate and maintain it there to the exclusion of smoke, soot, and odor and at a cost much less than that of any other burner of this character known to me.

A further object of the invention is to provide a branding implement or stamp of such improved character that the heating-blaze is perfectlyclear, so that all particles of combustion are consumed in the blaze and the fire confined in such a manner that theheat therefrom is directed against the branding-plate in an intensified condition and more heat is produced from the same amount of oil than in any other oil-burner known to me.

A still further object of the invention is to provide an oil-burning branding implement having a branding-plate provided with heatretaining lugs surrounded by a flanged hood and to arrange the several parts of the burner relative to the hood so that meat -brine will not interfere with the operation of the burner and so that the burner'parts are prevented from the usual burning out thereof and the explosions or snufiing out of the blaze of ordinary occurrence is prevented.

WVith these objects in View the invention consists in so arranging an outer casing under ahooded branding-plate as to form a fire-box or heating-chamber under the said plate and directing an oil-burning jet through a spiral Serial No. 178,580. (No model.)

part of this application, Figure l is an elevation of the implement in condition for use. Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing adifferent application. Fig. 3 is a central vertical sectional view. Fig. 4 is a top view of the burner with the branding-plate, hood, and bafiie-plate removed. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the sleeve. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the bafiie-plate.

The same numeral references denote the same parts throughout the severalviews of the drawings.

The oil-reservoir 1 may be of any suitable form or desirable size and is provided with a small flexible hose or pipe 2 for supplying oil through a spiral coil 3 to a needle valve or jet 4, provided with a starting-cup 5. A sleeve 6 is supported from the said cup bylegs 7 and is divided the length of the coil 3, which it surrounds, as well as the said valve-jet, by

strips or bars 8, which engage the coil and form air-passages 9. The bottom of the sleeve is open, and the top thereof is partially closed by a bafile or breaker plate 10, having pins 11 which fit within the sleeve-top. The said plate has a central opening 12 substantially the same diameter as the circle described by the coil 3, so as to confine the blaze and direct it centrally in its passage from the coil without permitting it to spread at the top of the coil. A series of air-ducts 13 are formed in the sleeve to assist the draft of the air-passages 9, which, with said ducts and the said plate, form a central draft augmented by the airpassage 14 between the sleeve and an outer casing 15 open at the top and bottom.

The branding-plate 16 has a series of lugs or projections 17 depending therefrom and form a most capable and effective means of retaining the heat upon the branding-plate. A conical hood is formed on the said plate to inclose the said lugs and forms, with the top ICC intersection or juncture of the hood and the casing to further augment or increase the draft above the sleeve and the coil. The hood has an apron or flange overhanging the top of the casing and which projects from .the hood above the passage 19 to protect the operator.

It will be seen that the sleeve is divided into three separate air flues or channels, and the dividing bars or strips separate the current of air in said flues until it reaches the baifle-plate, and the latter causes the air and gas to mix centrally over the top of the coil, so that by the time the flame reaches the fire-box or heating-chamber it is practically a pure White heat scarcely visible, but of intense heating capacity.

It will be observed that the air-passage or ducts between the hood and the top of the casing being of such restricted size as not to emit the flame therethrough it is directed into the fire box or heating-chamber and that the overhanging hood-apron fully protects the operator from the heat of the burner and also forms a drip for the brine or other liquid from the meat when applied to the branding-plate.

In practice the implement is placed conveniently as desired and at such distance from the reservoir as the supply-pipe will permit, and this may be varied, as desired or as occasion may demand, by lengthening or shortening said pipe. The oil is turned into the coil and ignited through the needle-valve by means of the starting-cup. Then the meat is applied to the branding-plate for branding.

It will be understood that various plates may be employed with the hood by simply replacing one for another, that the size of the ,parts and dimensions of the whole device may be varied as desired,.that more or less of the details thereof may be changed in the .practiparts maybel made detachable, and. thatithje cal application of the implement withoutddparting from the spirit of my invention 1 Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters p Patent, is-- 1. In a branding implement, the combina-i tion of a spiral pipe-coil, a tubular sleeve surtion of a vaporizing-coil, a tubular sleeve surrounding the coil with separated air-passages between the coil and the sleeve, and an openend casing surrounding the sleeve,as set forth.

2. In a branding implement, the combinarounding the coil, strips or bars between the coil and the sleeve and separating. thespace between. the coil and the sleeve into air-passages, andthe casing surroundingth'e sleeve,

ing the sleeve and plate, as setforth. Y .1 a. In a branding implement, .thecombination of a vaporizing-coil, a sleeve surrounding the coil with an air-space therebetween, strips or bars in the air-space to divide it, a baffle plate having a central opening and partly covering the sleeve, and a casing having open ends and surrounding the sleeve and the plate, as set forth.

5. The combination, with a vaporizing-coil, and a tube surrounding it with an interval or space between the coil and the tube, of means carried by and within the tube for interrupt ing the passage of air through the space.

6. The combination, with a vaporizing-coil, and a tube surrounding it with an interval or space between the coil and the tube, of means within the tube to interrupt the passage of air through the space, and a plate to deflect the air and centralize the flame at the top of the tube.

7. In a branding implement, the combination with the casing having open ends, and an oil-burner inclosed by the casing, of a branding-plate, a hood depending from the plate and supported by one end of the casing with an interval therebetween,lugs projecting from the plate and surrounded by the hood, and an apron projecting from the hood and overhanging the casing, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

'8. In a branding implement, the combination with the casing having open ends, and the branding-plate-"having a hood supported by one end of the casing to form a fire-box or heating-chamber with an interval between the hood and the casing-top, of an igniter-cup, a vaporizing-coil, a sleeve having legs standing on the cup and surrounding the coil with an ,fllIi-SpfiCG therebetween, strips on bars extend .ingthelength ofthe coil and dividingisaid space,1and a baffle-plate having pins fitting the sleeve and partly covering one end oflthe sleeve, substantiallyas shown and described andfor a purpose set forth. I v a 1 9.-In a branding-stamp. heater, the combination of a vaporizing-coil, a tube surrounding the coil witha space therebetween, strips or bars the length of the coil. upon .the. inside of thetube, and a plate to cover said space and the coil and having an aperture central with thecoilM, 10. In abranding-stampheater,.the combination of a vaporizing-coil,a tubular sleeve surrounding the coil with a space therebetween and projecting above and below. the c011, bars within the sleeve. and extending part i of its length, and a diskor plate tocover theltopof the sleeve and having an aperture central with the coil. l

In witness whereof Ihereunto set hand in the presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses:

J. Ross CoLHoUN, I E. B. HOLMAN. l;

GEORGE 

